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Earlier today Matt was a guest on BBC Radio 5 Live’s Afternoon Edition. You can listen to the episode over on the BBC website or in the embed below. In the interview he talks about Ripper Street series 4 which is currently airing on BBC 2 and BBC America. Matt also discusses his new play, Unfaithful.

Update: Thanks to AccioMDL we have the video of Matthew’s Radio chat. Watch below:

Matthew was a guest on ITV’s This Morning on August 15th to talk about his new play Unfaithful and Ripper Street Season 4 which will begin airing on BBC Two on August 22nd. It is also airing on Thursdays in the United States on BBC America.

Amazon has announced that season 5 of Ripper Street will be the show’s last. Matt Lewis joined the show for it’s 4th season and is currently filming the fifth and final. Ripper Street got it’s start on BBC and, when it was cancelled after two seasons, Amazon picked it up for what will be three more. The show has NOT been cancelled, they have just finished the story they wanted to tell so there is no need for further seasons.

In the final season, writer Richard Warlow shows how, as the Victorian age comes to a close, the police officers of H Division attempt to maintain law and order on the streets of Whitechapel. Joseph Mawle (“In the Heart of the Sea”) rejoins the series as the feared Detective Inspector Jedediah Shine, intent on a mission of revenge after last being seen in the season two finale when Inspector Reid (Matthew Macfadyen, “The Enfield Haunting”) plotted with Drake (Jerome Flynn, “Game of Thrones”) to take Shine’s life.

Season four, which launched exclusively for Prime Members in the U.K. in January, saw David Threlfall (“Shameless”), Matthew Lewis (“Happy Valley”) and David Warner (“Titanic,” “Planet of the Apes”) appear alongside series regulars Macfadyen, Flynn, MyAnna Buring (“The Twilight Saga”) and Adam Rothenberg (“The Immigrant”).

Another new interview featuring Matthew Lewis and Adam Rothenberg promoting Ripper Street series 4 has been released by HeyUGuys. The first episode is now available on Amazon Prime UK.

A couple more interviews have been released by MTV UK and Radio Times. While speaking to MTV, he talks about the show as well as Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Radio Times chats with him about Ripper Street and Happy Valley. Apparently the crew for Happy Valley loved his moustache from Ripper Street so much they asked him to keep it for their show.

“They saw the moustache and said, ‘That’s perfect, keep that’. I was like, ‘Thanks guys, I have to wear this for the next four months – my sex offender moustache.'”

Additonally, AOL has posted an interview with Matthew and Adam. Thanks to AccioMDL for putting it on Youtube:

In another new interview promoting Ripper Street, which begins streaming on Amazon Prime UK today, Matthew talks about the show as well as trying to get a role in Game of Thrones. We would totally be up for that! There are a few characters who haven’t yet appeared on the show that he would be great for. Who wants to start the petition?

“I just worked with Emilia Clarke, she was like, ‘They’re going to be doing some new casting.’ I was like, ‘Right, well, why don’t you tell them I’m free and I can come and do it.’
“I’ve seen a bit of the first season and a bit of the second, and I’ve read all the books, so I’m a big fan of the story. I’d definitely jump at a chance to be involved in that.
“I’d get to do my own accent, which is always nice, and it’s fun. I know a few people on it and it sounds like the most amazing fun—swords, shields, riding on horseback. What an era to throw yourself into!”
As a fan of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice novels, who could Matthew, 26, see himself playing? “The series is now ahead of the books so everyone’s been cast,” he says.
“My favourite character actually was Bronn when I read the books. I said that to Jerome when we first started shooting [Ripper Street], ‘Before we start, Ripper Street’s great, mate, but the way you play Bronn is absolutely identical to how I imagined it.’

For his role in Ripper Street, Matthew had to do a Cockney accent. Speaking to Yahoo UK:

“It’s weird. I went in for the meeting and he’s a Whitechapel lad, so they said, ‘Can you do it in a cockney accent?’ I go, ‘I dunno, I can give it a go, I’ve got enough black cabs in my time.’ Then I got the part and was like, ‘So the accent was fine?’ And they said, ‘Yeah.’
“On set I told the director, ‘If it goes all Dick Van Dyke you’re going to have to tell me’, because I just don’t know. The worst thing would be to watch it on Amazon and it be dreadful.”

He also spoke to Yahoo UK about the possibility of a Bluestone 42 film. He says he would definitely be interested if there was story to tell. He wouldn’t want to do a film just for the sake of making a film.